Helsinki Zoo Korkeasaari Zoo, Helsinki

I think there may have been a chameleon of some kind, maybe jackson's or veiled in one of them.

 

Korkeasaari still have an active presence on Flickr and occasionally post very good bird’s eye views showing the progress of the bridge development and how it impacts the zoo.

Korkeasaaren eläintarha

 

I didn't know that, thanks! Pretty interesting pictures!

 

There are already three reindeer babies. One of them seemed to walk a bit clumsy, so maybe it was born very recently.

The lionesses were quite noisy today with big roars. There are some new fences so that people can't get too close to the glass on one of the sides. Maybe there's something going on with them?

 

Two things about my visit today. First of all the Patagonian conures have been gone for at least two weeks now and I have no idea where they have gone. However they are still signed and on the website. On more exiting news, on one of the empty africasia terrariums is a sign saying awaiting new arrivals from Germany, with a picture of an elephant shrew!

 

My bad, Vasil was born in Brno but came from d'Amnéville.

They are outside, you can find them behind the Amazonia house near the prairie dog enclosure.

 

That’s on me . I guess I’m stuck in the winter when there’s no reason to go back there.

 

The park will open a new African pigmy goat garden later this summer in the former reserve enclosure for vicunas. I guess they are moving the goats away from the construction sites.

Also, the male Amur leopard has moved from the enclosure next to the lions to the enclosure next to the female Amur leopard.

 

Lots of births recently including four goitered gazelles, five dwarf mongooses and a unknown amount of gundis and crested partridges

 

I saw today a sign saying that a new animal is coming to the zoo in the former raccoon enclosure:

Spoiler: New animal

Pallas' cat

No date has been announced yet.

Also, I saw several very tiny maras sucling from their mother, they must have been born very recently.

 

Amazing news!

 

I wonder if the zoo will ever use the old skunk enclosure again or will it just be empty forever.

 

Which is that enclosure? Ththe playground next to the bears? I haven't noticed any empty enclosure apart from those close to the bridge building area.

 

Yes it’s that one

 

After the Crown Bridges construction finishes (in 2025 or 2027 if I remember correctly?), I'm sure there will be a plan for it, as well as for the old goat yard and the new land area that the zoo gets from construction site!

 

I didn't even know the zoo will actually gain land from the construction which is pretty exciting!

 

The Pallas's cat has arrived!

Manuli - Korkeasaaren eläintarha

 

Three tiger cubs!



Korkeasaareen syntyi kolme amurintiikerin pentua

 

More births: a European bison was born on 30 August, increasing the herd to 8 animals.

 

The tiger cubs genders have been revealed! There’s two females and one male.

Source: Korkeasaaren tiikerinpennut ensimmäisessä terveystarkastuksessa